Saturday, September 8, 2012

Today Dakota Franklin is my blog guest.

I didn’t.I just wanted to go where my writing guru went, and that turned out to
be CoolMain Press, a micropublisher. I don’t know if that makes me an indie.

2. What genre do you write in and what
genre do you prefer to read?

I read novels of suspense and that is what
I write. I don’t see them as genre fiction, so I think of them just as novels.

3. Where do you sell most books, USA or UK,
Amazon or Barnes and Noble?

My books sell equally in the States and in
Britain. I don’t know if they’re in Barnes and Noble. Though I’m an American, I
live in Switzerland, so I don’t think I’ve ever been in a Barnes & Noble
store..

4. During your childhood who was your
biggest influence?

My father. He was a consulting engineer in
the automobile field, as was my grandfather, as am I.

5. Are you fortunate enough to write
full-time?

I suppose I could if I wanted to. But my
writing process is bound up with my job and I am extremely loath to disturb it.
I spend a huge amount of time in the car, driving across Europe to my projects.
Those hours in the car every day I use to dictate my stories to my assistant
and to a computer dictation program. The
cutting and rewriting I do at night in hotel rooms. It keeps me sane.

6. If Hollywood came knocking who would you
want to play your main character?

In my series RUTHLESS TO WIN, each book has
a different main character, who also appears in other books as a supporting
character. At the centre of the first
novel
to be published, LE MANS, stands Mallory, a female endurance racer. I
really
haven’t thought on casting the female characters. The female lead in
REQUIEM AT MONZA is immensely tall and hugely athletic. I shall have to
consult my
teenage daughter, who knows the current actresses. Several of the men
could be
played by George Clooney, but I think I’d cast him as Charlie
Cartwright, the
diabolical nexus of the series. The book about Charlie, TROUBLESHOOTERhas just been launched.

7. Name 6 people, dead or alive, you’d love
to have as guests seated around your dinner-table.